I Have Countless Past-life Identities-Chapter 62 - 56: Opening the Forehead Ancestral Acupoint, Receiving the Dragon and Tiger True Gang, and the Returnless Man in the Master of Baoping State’s Memory

Chapter 62: Chapter 56: Opening the Forehead Ancestral Acupoint, Receiving the Dragon and Tiger True Gang, and the Returnless Man in the Master of Baoping State’s Memory

"Moreover, they’re all meats of magical creatures from the mountains, like the Golden Sword Lion, Hanging Eye Tiger, Nine-Sectioned Black Snake, and so on..."

"These are all things that have reached the Foundation Establishment Grade, full of nutrients and wonderfully delicious."

"Only in the Prefecture Demon Hunting Department can you eat such things; in a big city below, you wouldn’t even have the chance!"

Song Chai Xin, who stood up, patted his body and looked at the now long-gone Ye Cang with a slight sense of regret.

He regretted not hearing Ye Cang’s insights on the ’Yellow Court’ and ’Carefree’ acupoints.

But then, Song Chai Xin chuckled it off.

The road ahead, each checkpoint is more difficult than the last.

As the saying goes, don’t bite off more than you can chew. First, perfect the Vajra Body, and then plan, it’s not too late.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

To be mentored by a Fourth Step Expert even once...

How could one dare to ask for more!

However, just as he stood up,

Song Chai Xin’s gaze suddenly froze:

"Wait, this is..."

He picked up a Jade Scroll that Ye Cang had left at his spot before leaving.

In it was inscribed a line of script, and as Song Chai Xin read it silently, he couldn’t help but be astonished:

"Dragon and Tiger True Gang...?"

"Hiss!"

"This is a cultivation technique for refining the ’Vajra Body’, and it seems to be a prerequisite for a more advanced technique, with pathways leading to the Great Innate!"

"Though it’s only of noble grade, it might possess techniques for forging ’Great Innate’ cultivation, which fundamentally differs from techniques like the ’Golden Lock Jade Technique’ that focus on Foundation Establishment."

"The rarity between the two is incomparable, and it’s a simplified version of an even higher technique, whose original must be a profound skill beyond authentic greatness."

"This Demon Hunter General is truly..."

[Affection level of Baoping State’s Demon Hunter General has increased from Jianghu encounter to ’regret not meeting sooner’!]

Grasping the Jade Scroll tightly, Song Chai Xin couldn’t help but feel immense gratitude.

...

As Ye Cang, the former Baoping State Demon Hunter General, took Song Chai Xin away, claiming to enlighten him.

Only the tall woman with a half-golden silk mask was left in the Wutong Prefecture Government Office.

Silent and cold, the remaining officials in the office didn’t dare to disturb this eminent lady.

Outside the window, green willows drooped, and the spring breeze was gentle.

Pei Nanbei watched for a while,

suddenly reached out her jade hand, and gently removed the half-golden silk mask.

This mask looked very old, very old now.

Yet her movement was exceedingly gentle, imbuing it with qi in her palm, carefully preserving it, like she was holding some rare treasure.

But in truth,

the mask was not rare.

It’s the kind of delicate thing you could buy in a bustling marketplace for a few dozen or hundred coins.

Though well-made, it had no special effects.

The woman’s hand softly wiped nonexistent dust from it, her eyes staring dreamily in the direction the youth had left:

"Demon Suppression Dao Qi..."

Pei Nanbei couldn’t help but place her jade hand on the part of the face the mask once covered.

Only to see,

underneath the jade-like, tender cheek that could shatter with a breath, was a clearly visible, grotesque ’slave’ character.

Even with this little flaw, the woman’s features were still stunningly beautiful.

For Pei Nanbei, a Fourth Step Expert, such a mark was not indelible.

Yet she had never erased it, merely wearing the mask, hiding her true face from the world every day.

No one knew, or rather...

Very few knew,

of that nearly sixty-year-old period.

The now-mighty Master of Baoping State Pei Nanbei once hailed from a ’slave status’.

If nothing unexpected happened, she would either be a prostitute or fall into a life of degradation.

In that war-torn era,

Such a background was unlikely to lead to a good outcome.

But fate is wonderfully strange,

allowing you to see a flowering hope on the cliff’s edge.

And the reason Pei Nanbei never erased her ’blemish’.

Was simply because decades ago,

that bold and spirited Profound Robe youth, in the icy cold, north wind-blasted frontier.

When he bought her this mask, he said:

"You look quite nice with this mask on too."

Lost in memories,

the woman looked outside the window.

The past sorrows of hardship and frost in her hair had long turned to wind and rain, vanished.

What remained, only the respect of her high position.

But that old friend,

grew increasingly blurry in her memory.

So much so that, just seeing a shadow, Pei Nanbei instinctively...

wanted to speak out, wanted to reach out.

"I must be insane."

"For a moment, I really thought you had come back."

Finally, the woman closed the window, shaking her head with a wry smile, her eyes dimmed, a bit desolate.

Upon sensing the return of the Demon Hunter General,

she once again wore the mask,

concealing all her emotions within her eyes.

At this moment, she was no longer the sword-carrying maid beside the Great Demon Hunter Master.

But the Master of Baoping State, whose mere stomp could draw fear from Jianghu, demons, and the entire state.

Ultimately, people are often troubled by what they couldn’t obtain in their youth.

Regret,

is even more so.

(ps: Two Chapters of 9,500 words have been uploaded, almost 10,000 initially published, and around midnight, I should write another 3,000 to 4,000. When I wake up tomorrow and it’s around 11 or 12 at night, I will finish writing 20,000.)

(Going forward, it’s like early hours today, generally two updates of 8,000 to 10,000 words, thanks for everyone’s support!)